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DS U idea
scarmullet:
If anything it would be a 3DSu, but with semantics aside, this WOULD be a great idea. Does the Wii U have an expansion port or is it all USB? If it is, that could be stopping nintendo for fear of people hacking the device to dump 3DS cards.
Dravenae:
If I'm honest, I can't imagine them doing something like this. I would definitely like them to, but since they have been promoting putting both Game Cube and Game Boy Advance games on the Virtual Console, I would have no reason to believe they wouldn't follow suite with the DS.
I wouldn't imagine that they would even think about making it possible to play 3DS games via the Wii U. Nintendo would be short hanging themselves if that were the case. What's the point in buying a 3DS, when you can play them on the Wii U? Doesn't make sense to me that they would even think to do that, plus, does the Wii U even had the architecture to play 3D games? I know that it has been hinted at.
TLDR : Not likely.
larryinc64:
@Dravenae
Well Gamecube and GBA games are old and not sold anymore in mainstream stores, like NES, GB, SNES, GBC, and N64. DS games are still being produced, Nintendo is still making copies of most of their first party titles. Downloadable versions can possibly be released eventually, but it does not seem likely any time soon.
It could maybe take a little away from 3DS sales, but there is still a point to buying a 3DS, portability. The attachment would probably cost almost as much as a 3DS anyway, judging by the Game Boy Player, it would probably be a 3DS without screens or a battery that plugs into your Wii U. So any lost 3DS sale would be made up by this being sold, plus it give a reason for people with a 3DS to buy one, or a reason for people without a Wii U but a large DS collection to buy a Wii U, like me. And Nintendo would still make money in 3DS software sales.
3D would probably have to be cut from the Wii U one though, 3DTVs kinda died.
JDavis:
--- Quote from: scarmullet on June 22, 2013, 02:12:52 PM ---Does the Wii U have an expansion port or is it all USB? If it is, that could be stopping nintendo for fear of people hacking the device to dump 3DS cards.
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Just USB... But if they were considering doing one of these add-ons for the Wii U they would have put some sort of expansion port in. The fact that they didn't is telling.
--- Quote from: Dravenae on June 22, 2013, 02:24:21 PM ---I wouldn't imagine that they would even think about making it possible to play 3DS games via the Wii U. Nintendo would be short hanging themselves if that were the case. What's the point in buying a 3DS, when you can play them on the Wii U?
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A valid point... if they hadn't already done it twice over in the past with Super Gameboy and Gameboy Player. Those didn't stop people from buying GBs and GBAs. Of course, the 3DS is on somewhat more shaky footing than those were, so it may just be a timing issue.
--- Quote from: Dravenae on June 22, 2013, 02:24:21 PM ---Doesn't make sense to me that they would even think to do that, plus, does the Wii U even had the architecture to play 3D games? I know that it has been hinted at.
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I don't think anyone's really suggesting that it would play the games in 3D.
Personally, I think the biggest reason why we won't be seeing one of these is Nintendo's (and everyone else's) big push to digital... And, in particular, Nintendo's methods of tying the game purchases to the system instead of an account. The digital download version of NSMB2, for example, can't plug in like a cartridge, and if they did some major 3DS firmware update to enable Nintendo Network IDs on the thing and tie all your purchases to accounts and such... it would kill their model of selling Virtual Console games to you separately on each system.
ChaosCat:
--- Quote from: scarmullet on June 22, 2013, 02:12:52 PM ---If anything it would be a 3DSu, but with semantics aside, this WOULD be a great idea. Does the Wii U have an expansion port or is it all USB? If it is, that could be stopping nintendo for fear of people hacking the device to dump 3DS cards.
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maybe to get around that they could make the device hook to the Wii U Game Pad, and like the GameCube GameBoy Player Have a Disc to do the Loading and Stuff